Mother Martha celebrates another year 101 years old May 5, 2012
Having read the article one of the important wisdom that Mother Martha shares is the importance of a simple life and having a good mind. I believe this is so true. If money and stuff could save us there will be no dead billionaire. Having a good, loving mind can go a long way to ensuring a long and happy life. Well, Mother Martha I wish you another year. I will watch for your update next May. God bless you.
101-year-old Mother Martha enjoys reading
the papers and doing puzzles
By Leon Suseran
Martha Bunwarie had turned 100 when she was last featured. She achieved another
101- year- old Martha Bunwarie
milestone recently, turning 101 years old but is just as agile, healthy and is blessed with an eye sight that really adds flavour to her life through the activities in which she is engaged. We caught up, recently, with ‘Mother Martha’ as she is popularly referred to at her Number 64 Village home, where she resides with her granddaughter, Corina Peneux. Born at Number 65 Village, Martha was an avid rice farmer in the area. She attended the New Market Primary School at Number 63 Village after which she started to do rice and fish farming. She migrated to Skeldon in 1941 where she married Henricus Bunwarie at the age of 34. Henricus died in 1988. She returned to Number 64 Village in 1966. She bore one child who died by drowning in 1972. “I grow lots of children. People would come bring their children to go to school; they stay five years, six years; they go away then another set come,” she said. She said that she even ended up ‘buying’ a child. After being a farmer, she became involved in helping mothers deliver their children and cared for them after the deliveries. She was also known for creating concoctions for young mothers who had difficulty becoming pregnant; and they worked, she said. This week, her granddaughter, Corina Peneux, prepared Mother Martha and had her all decked out in her best clothes and stylish hairstyle. She vividly remembered the reporter, quite amazing for a woman her age. “I’m doing good so far! The past year was very nice. I had lots of friends. I didn’t invite anybody for the 101st, but the house was full. We had a nice day and all my friends around, still came around and give me a ‘look-up’”, she said, referring to the day she turned 101. Mother Martha, when asked how she was feeling nowadays, said, “You know, as you getting older, some days you feeling alright…some days I feeling sick…some days I can get up and do something…some days I can’t do anything”. “Age. When I was young, I was a farmer, and you know farming is a very hard thing; then I was a domestic…I worked from 1941”. At that moment, she pointed to a bouquet of flowers that was in the living room and said that it was from the Mayor of Corriverton, Mr. Roy Baijnauth, for whose parents she did domestic work. “He was two years old when I go to work with them. They were the first persons whom I worked with as a domestic at Skeldon.” She added that she worked with different persons including a Catholic priest, Father Brown, “Then when the nuns came to Skeldon, I worked with the nuns”. She cooked, washed and baked for them. She burst into a big laugh when she was reminded that she is still going strong at 101 years and should aim high for 102. “Well, I hope so…I might go for 110!” she stated. “Life is a very sweet thing…Is your mind…you must have a good mind. Life, to me, is sweet, nice, good and we ain’t used to be inside the house; we were domestics… all- rounders”. She added that they used to catch fish, cook, work at the backdam, farmed and planted crops such as rice. “We were quite happy, happy, happy people. My parents had five of us; I am the eldest.” “You wake up in the morning. We never used to buy greens. We planted our own greens in the farm, and we hadn’t oil stove; we had dover stove– a kind of wooden stove, so you cooked and who couldn’t afford, you bought your wood and made your fireside”. She shared how she spends a typical day. “I don’t do anything. I can’t do any work. I wake up at 6:00 or 6:30; and then they make me take my tea; my granddaughter bathes me, change my clothes and I rest, lie down and sleep”. Amazingly, the woman reads a lot since she has very good eyesight. “I reading plenty. I have plenty books. Them books I got…some religious, some is kinda ‘wild’ books as you call…novels and so”. Some of the favourite things she enjoys are juices, lemonade, rice, boulanger, ochro, corilla…no pumpkin– I don’t eat pumpkin– but eat everything else, and my granddaughter gives me everything…bananas, papaws..them treat me nice”. She said that she regularly ate hassar. “When you bite hassar, you mouth full and we don’t catch hassar with hooks to eat…no, every year me buy four heads of twine”. She explained the meticulous process in making the cast net and using it to catch fish. “Thank God I can still see! I don’t hear too well but I can see and read– I does buy the newspaper; I does do search words”, she related. “Just as the paper comes, I take it and do the word search puzzles”. “Boy, God is great. Life depends on your mind. If you got a good mind, everything is alright for you. You must not be living in the world and being wrong; do right things. Don’t rob, thief. Work honest and you get everything you want in this world…God will give you–everything”. “I live happy as a child. I never quarreled with people”, she said. Mother Martha demonstrated her amazing eye- sight as she pointed to various persons and objects in the living room with accuracy, proof that she saw very well. She is anxiously awaiting the arrival of her fourth generation. Peneux’s daughter, Sabrina Leacock, is due to deliver her baby in August this year, giving Mother Martha her first great, great grand. “My father said that God must bless you and then you will live to see your fourth generation…Well I am only asking God to allow me to see my fourth generation very soon”. The centenarian shares a very close relationship with her doctor, Dr. Seepersaud of Skeldon, whom she visits once a month for check- ups. “I am not changing my doctor!” she asserted. Her granddaughter, Corina Peneux, said that Mother Martha has been doing quite well over the past year. She said that her health has been okay and has not really declined much. Unlike the big 300- person- plus 100 birthday celebrations over a year ago, Peneux said that she did not do a big celebration for her 101st birthday; rather a small “get- together” with close family members. We wish Mother Martha another very successful year as she aims for 102
LFS Burnham Grandaughter is no Ordinary Woman April 19, 2012
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An unconventional woman
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By By Renée Cummings
April 14, 2012
NOTHING is conventional about Dr. Asante VanWest-Charles-Le Blanc. Her unconventional upbringing began as the granddaughter of Forbes Burnham who reigned supreme over Guyana and ruled with might and myth for 21 years until his death in 1985; undoubtedly, and historically, one of the most controversial and colourful political figures of the region.
“I would play under the table where he held his cabinet meetings. I also went around with him on his horse. On Fridays, he rode around town and through the country areas. I also remember he would have his entire cabinet swimming in the pool at the residence. I can’t remember all the dignitaries I met but some of the African leaders, Clive Lloyd, and Sir Shridath Ramphal who I grew up calling uncle.” Her middle name is Indira. It is said that Indira Gandhi impressed Burnham so much when they met that he bestowed her name upon his granddaughter and first grandchild.
At eight months old, she was photographed, in a crisp christening dress; a gift from Fidel Castro, Burnham’s close friend and ally. “But they forgot to christen me,” she says with a chuckle. After some effort, she locates the album and shows me a black and white photo coloured with pride. “The rumour is that Fidel is my godfather,” she smiles mischievously. “That’s what everybody in the family says. He and granddad were very close. He came to Guyana for granddad’s funeral.” Castro’s closeness with Burnham inspired many things, among them, CARIFESTA, the Caribbean Festival of Arts, first held in Guyana in 1972. Later in life, Castro would give her another memorable gift of a university scholarship to study medicine in Cuba. He would also grant her the access and privilege that came with knowing Castro or more so with Castro knowing you. Being able to drop his name when it mattered most saved her, a few times, from being arrested. “I would have to call his name,” she laughs. “It was because of my skin tone, my features, and my Spanish accent that I was often mistaken for a prostitute. That’s when I would also whip out my Guyanese passport.”
Actually, she was born in Cuba. Her parents were there as university students and care-giving for a newborn clashed with classroom hours and cramming for exams. “My parents got married in Guyana. Mom was 21 and dad was 23. Mom had me when she was 22.” She arrived in Guyana at two months old. “I stayed for a year and a bit and then I was sent back to Cuba.” Viola Burnham, the second wife, cared for her in those early months. “She always said that family had no step. So I never saw her as my step-grandmother. She was my grandmother.” At three years old, her travel chaperone, Vincent Teekah, the Minister of Education, was allegedly assassinated. There are many accounts but no one official account of the events that lead to his death. Conspiracy theories abound. She was a toddler when it happened. Her memory, of these events, and others, was pieced together, over the years, from what she heard and overheard. “He was very close to granddad. They blew him up in a car,” she says in a hushed tone, the kind of tone that was probably used in the days following Teekah’s death but hardly expected 33 years later. She mentions the name Walter Rodney. We look at each other and our eyes conspire to go no further.
Her mother was studying political science. She’s the first of three daughters Burnham had with his first wife, Sheila Lataste, a Trinidadian optometrist who worked for decades at Imperial Optical and died last July. “They divorced when mom was around 11.” Her father was studying medicine and graduated as Guyana’s Minister of Health.
Growing up, she and her dad sold her grandfather’s political newspaper, New Nation, in the marketplace. “I only knew him as grandfather,” she laughs. “I was nine when he died. I was actually in Trinidad. I’m only now cognizant of what he was politically and some things were just wrong. He didn’t tief money but he was the politician who made sure he won.” Her hysterical laughter tells a story of its own. It could be a case of if you don’t laugh you will cry when thinking of some of Burnham’s decisions and policies. It was reported that he banned condensed milk but asked for a spoon of it on his death bed. “Bittersweet,” she says, in deep thought. “In retrospect, I guess that’s his political history. No matter his faults, he’s one of the founding fathers and he had the guts to fight. But he was a human being.”
“I’m very proud to be his granddaughter and I am able to differentiate the politician from the father and the grandfather. He taught his children well, so well that they could recognise where he was going wrong.” The somber moment ends. She’s no longer reflective. Now, she’s keeping it real. “He was a man who would fight with his own family, his own children, over politics,” she hollers. Her laughter carries various emotions, expressions and a variety of coded meaning. This dose of laughter is decoded along the lines of an acceptance that Burnham was quite a character and that’s putting it mildly.
“Everything around him was purple. He loved purple. I went to the high school he founded, President’s College. He died in August 1985 and it opened in September 1985. The uniform was purple. Let’s just say he was hooked on purple.” Our eyes meet at her feet. She’s wearing Chinese house slippers in purple mesh. We both erupt in laughter. Then she cuts me a playful look to confirm that whatever Burnham had, his idiosyncrasies and eccentricities were neither contagious nor genetic.
“He was just very strong in his beliefs. He was a Methodist but he had every holy book. He said he chose the good out of every religion.”
We spent two days together. Easter Sunday spilled into Easter Monday.
For those of us who came back, on Monday, it never felt as though we ever left. Her home is filled with love, life, laughter and lots of food; on second thought, too much food. Guyanese Pepperpot simmered to perfection, in an authentic but secret cassareep recipe served with imported Antiguan clay oven bread for the dipping. Cook-up rice, fried channa, akee, saltfish in coconut milk, callaloo Jamaican style, Johnny bake, duckanoo (it tastes like pamie but looks like cassava pone), pastelles, barbeque chicken; the works! She’s a fantastic hostess. She really knows how to entertain. Let’s just say she’s very entertaining. “My grandmother was a strong woman who taught me how to be a strong woman without alienating myself from men, from being a wife or from being in the kitchen. She was a first lady, a farmer, a mother, a grandmother, and a feminist.” A lot of her best memories are in Guyana with her grandmother. “I would always go back home to Guyana for holidays. But I moved back in 1995.” She was 19. “Mum Vi, that’s what I called my grandmother. She had a farm and I would help her plant vegetables, milk the cows and sell the milk.”
Losing her grandmother, in October 2003, was devastating. “We found out she had cancer in January 2003. She said Asante what do I do? I said Mum Vi it is your decision, quality versus quantity of life. She had no biological grandchildren, I was about to graduate, it was very difficult for her because there was so much getting ready to come to the fore, so she decided to fight for us and herself. But it wasn’t going well. She decided to stop treatment.” She was finishing the final year of an internship. She flew from New York to a Miami hospice to spend those last days with her grandmother. “She was in a coma due to the morphine. She went when we were all asleep.” She got to pronounce her grandmother dead. “Since I was five years old I wanted to be a doctor. Of course, I had those moments where I also wanted to be an air-hostess and secretary,” she laughs uncontrollably. But now she’s solemn. “I didn’t think it would happen. I fell out with my father and that was my money supply.” Her six years of medical school were the longest years of her life.
“I could have never done it without Errol.” She married her husband, the month after her grandmother died, after a six-year long distance relationship, and with the approval of the woman who raised her. “I wouldn’t have done it if Mum Vi didn’t approve.” From the day he entered her life, her husband, Errol Le Blanc, managing director of UNICOMER Ltd. (trading as Courts Furniture Store) has been a driving force behind her success and stability. “He’s a good friend, my advisor, and my business partner. A long-distance relationship has its own rules but our long-distance relationship was one of a kind. When you don’t plan things, good things happen.” Lots of good things have happened between them including two beautiful daughters Kamili seven and Zola five. “I also have three sons Kwame 21, Jelani 18, and Raymond 16 and as Mum Vi said in family there is no step!” She was pregnant and working, in Grenada, in 2004, when Hurricane Ivan hit.
“There were a lot of casualties, the morning after. I was a surgical intern and it was also my first pregnancy. I couldn’t leave. I kept working. My feet were so swollen that they sent me home. When I went to bathe there was blood. I was standing so much that my placenta was grazed. They wanted to keep me but I took my IV (intravenous therapy) and went home. All night, I was turning my IV but the bleeding got worse.” Her husband broke the curfew to get a doctor. “They didn’t believe him and held a gun to his head.”
The next morning, she flew to Trinidad where she stayed until Grenada settled. The year after, they moved to Trinidad where she has lived since 2005. But at first, things didn’t go as planned. “They didn’t want me to work here. It was during the controversy of the creation a parallel medical board to register Cuban doctors. They said my Cuban medical degree was from an unrecognised university.” She got around it but it wasn’t easy and certainly wasn’t cheap. Eventually, she did one year in pathology at the Eric Williams Medical Sciences Complex in Mt.
Hope. “Autopsies,” she laughs. “Besides the smell it was a great experience. Pathology is one of the cornerstones of medicine. You really get to see the impact disease has on the body. Some days were hard if you got a baby or a child.” She was the only female. “My scrubs were always tight and I guess they didn’t expect to see a woman cutting the body and coming out to tell you the cause of death. I met some great people there.” I couldn’t help but ask, “Who, the dead?”
Her laughter is now uncontainable. “Well at last that’s one place the patients won’t argue with you.” She’s a riot. Anyone who knows her will attest to that. She can also cause a riot. “The working conditions were bad. We demanded better conditions. There were trials and tribulations but overall it was a good experience.”
She’s now in private practice as a general practitioner and certified medical herbalist. She’s also one of the most sought after practitioners of alternative medicine in the country. “I use the traditional Chinese diagnostic model. I found that I could do more for my patients using both models; traditional medicine and alternative medicine. It was just the right thing to do.” She contends that using a combined model offers a better understanding of the patient. “You are able to understand the patient as an individual.” Some would call her approach unconventional. But even in her practice, she embraces diversity and doing things differently because no two human beings are the same. The overwhelming demand for her services in alternative medicine means she’s getting results. “Medicine is not one size fits all. It is a continuous and dynamic process.”
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Old Time Memories April 14, 2012
GUYANESE PROVERBS MEANINGS
1. All cassava get same skin but all nah taste same way. Though people may look alike because of their mode of dress, they are different in their ways.
2. Baby who ah cry ah house and ah door ah same thing. The same manner in which you treats your child, you should treat another’s.
3. Belly full behind drunk. After you have eaten and drunken much you tend to become lazy.
4. Big tree fall down, goat bite he leaf. When a great man falls, he is no longer feared and respected.
5. Bush get ears and dutty get tongue. Sometimes you think that what you do or say nobody sees or hears, but yet your secrets are known.
6. Cat foot soft but he ah scratch bad. Some people may seem friendly and understanding but to your surprise it is not really so.
7. Cuss when yuh ah guh, nah wheh yuh ah come out. You must not curse the place that you have come from, because sometime in the future you may have to return there.
8. Contrary breeze ah mek crow and eagle light on one line. When there is trouble, enemies are sometimes forced to get together to solve problems.
9. Cow deh a pasture he nah remember seh dog and butcher deh till he see am. Sometimes when you think you are safe, danger is lurking nearby.
10. Cat a ketch rat, but he a teef he massa fish. Good and evil come from the same source.
11. Clath ah easy fuh dutty but hard fuh wash. Having achieved a goal, it is difficult to retain it.
12. Dah mouth dat man tek fuh court woman, ah de same mouth he ah tek an put she ah door. When a man is courting a woman, he is very concerned, kind and considerate, but when the novelty of the relationship is over, he finds faults and is unkind.
13. Don’t mind how bird vex, it can’t vex with tree. It does not matter if you are annoyed with conditions at work, you have to return to your job. Similarly, although you may be frustrated with the situation in your homeland, you may still have to return to it.
14. Dog buy rum, cow drink am, hog in sty get drunk. A matter may not concern someone, yet he or she gets involved.
15. Every rope gat two ends. Every story has two sides.
16. Every fowl feed pon he own craw. Everybody has to learn and find out what is good for himself or herself.
17. Every best friend get a next best friend. Your secrets are spread from best friend to best friend to best friend.
18. Every bush a man night time. Things seem worse than they really are when we are afraid.
19. Fish ah deh ah watah but nah ah dam tap. There are places where you can play an important part, but here are other places where you can be insignificant.
20. Fish ah play ah sea, he nah know watah ah boil fuh am. Sometimes when you are enjoying yourself, unknown to you, trouble is brewing in the background.
21. Fish and cast-net nah friend. In life it is difficult for you to relate to someone who may be unfriendly or hostile.
22. Good gubby nah ah float ah tap. Good things do not come easily.
23. Hungry nah know bam-by. If you have a need, you grasp at everything that fulfills it.
24. If yuh finger get sore, nah tek am and throw way. A member of your family may turn delinquent but that does not mean that you must disown him or refuse to help him.
25. If yuh eye nah see, yuh mouth nah must talk. You must see for yourself before you talk.
26. If cow-man pass wild meat whah mek me must pick up am. You should not go against the decision or choice of a person you feel is qualified to make the right choice.
27. It nah good to shove yuh foot in every stocking. You should not try to position yourself everywhere or in everything.
28. If me bin know always deh behind de door. We are quick to use ignorance as an excuse for our mistakes.
29. If yuh nah get wing, nah ah guh a bird sport. If you feel that you do not belong somewhere you should not go there. Also, if you are unable to do something, you should not do it.
30. If dutty ah deh ah roof tap, yuh barrel ah catch am. Children learn bad habits from their parents.
31. If oil ah float watah deh ah battam. A little evidence can tell the whole story.
32. If yuh plant plantain yuh can’t reap cassava. You reap what you sow.
33. If trousers say massah teef, yuh can’t doubt am. If someone close to you says something about you it is most likely true.
34. Lil finger point to de big thumb and sey nah guh. Those who are leading can see the danger ahead and are in a position to give advice.
35. Lil boy nah climb ladder to turn big man. Only time can make you what you will be.
36. Lil ah sick, big a get better. When you are small you are insignificant, but when you become big you are strong and important.
37. Man strength deh ah he hand, woman strength deh a she mouth. It is assumed that a woman talks very much, but a man talks less and quickly resorts to violence.
38. Mouth cut trousers nah ah fit Massa. What you boast about yourself may not necessarily be true.
39. Macaw ask parrot if mango ripe, he say one, one. You should not tell everything. Room should be left to others to find out some things for themselves.
40. Moon ah run till daylight ketch am. You may think that you are getting away with your misdeeds, but one day you will be caught.
41. Nah all who guh a church house ah guh fuh pray. It is not everything you must take at face value.
42. Nah tek yuh mattie eye fuh see. See for yourself and form your own conclusions instead of relying on the reports of others.
43. Nah one time a fire mek peas boil. Some things take a long time to be completed.
44. Nah because dog ah play with yuh he nah bite yuh. Some people talk kindly to you but they are capable of hurting you.
45. Nah every crab hole get crab. Things do not always turn out to be what you expect them to be.
46. Nah every big head get sense. If a person’s head is big it is not necessarily brainy.
47. Nah mind how pumpkin vine run, he must dry up one day. Every life comes to an end sooner or later.
48. Nah put all two foot in river if yuh want see how he deep. Do not jump into a venture before you make sure that it is worthy.
49. Nah everything scholar know he learn from teacher. In life you learn from everybody and everything in the environment in which you find yourself.
50. Never guh a store ah night fuh buy black cloth. You must attempt something only when all aspects seem clear.
51. No good carpenter does get good wuk bench. When you are good at a job you are expected to perform just as well without the necessary tools and support.
52. Nobody want dutty powder. People will not respect you if you have a bad reputation.
53. One man money mek too much man cry. Sometimes when a person dies others will cry not so much in sorrow but in joy for the expected inheritance.
54. One kiss nah done lips. A source of enjoyment is always available where it was once found.
55. Orange yellow but yuh nah know if he sweet. You cannot judge everything from the outside.
56. Only knife ah know whah in pumpkin belly. Only after experiencing trials and crises in life can a person’s true self be known.
57. Rain ah fall ah roof yuh put barrel fuh ketch am. There is an opportunity for everyone and you must try to grasp it.
58. Shame face ah feel like cent ice. When you are made to feel ashamed, you wish you could disappear from the public’s eye.
59. Some pork-knockers does only clear track fuh monkey run race. Some people do all the hard work but others benefit in the end.
60. Seven years nah too much fuh wash speck off ah bird neck. Some people will never change their ways and attitude.
61. Slow fire ah boil hard cow-heel. If you persevere you can make great accomplishments.
62. Tongue nah gat teeth but he ah bite fuh true. You can hurt a person by what you say as if you literally bite him.
63. Turtle can’t walk if he nah push he head outa he shell. In life you cannot make any kind of progress if you do not take risks. Also, the first steps must be made.
64. Turtle nah want trouble mek he walk with he house pon he back. You should be always prepared for disappointment or trouble.
65. Too much sit down ah bruck trousers. Lazy people wear out their pants and get nothing done.
66. The looks ah de pudding is not de taste. You should not always take things by their looks.
67. Vice nah hurt but conscience ah hurt yuh. Although you tend to be ignored for the wrong things you do, you still have your conscience to deal with.
68. Vex nah gat plaster fuh passion. Vexation will cure a problematic situation.
69. Wasteful man money ah guh like butter in de sun. If you waste your money it would be finished very quickly.
70. When man mek heself sugar he mattie ah suck am. Sometimes when you make yourself too kind your friends and associates will take advantage.
71. When yuh buy ah dutty calico yuh gat fuh wear am till it tear. When you make a decision you must be prepared to abide with the consequences.
72. When yuh play out all yuh trump cards yuh gat to lose till game done. Giving up your advantages places you in a losing position.
73. When yuh dead yuh nah sabee, and when yuh sabee yuh dead. You spend a lifetime trying to acquire knowledge and understanding, and when it seems that all has been grasped, life ends.
74. When man done suck cane he dash peeling pan ground. Some people make use of things and people and then carelessly discard them.
75. When Mumma dead family done. When a mother is around, she keeps the family together, but when she dies the members of the family tend to scatter.
76. When dog hungry he ah nyam calabash. To fill a need you make do with anything at hand.
77. When gaulding see fish he forget seh gun deh. Sometimes when you are enjoying yourself, unknown to you, trouble is brewing in the background.
78. When yuh deh in bad luck wet paper self ah cut yuh. A spell of misfortune causes our whole outlook to be bleak. The smallest incident can cause us to feel hurt.
79. When water throw away ah ground yuh can’t pick am up. It is no use crying over a mishap.
80. When coconut fall from tree he can’t fasten back. Some happenings cannot be changed or reversed.
81. When two big bottle deh ah table lil one nah business deh. When two powerful people meet to discuss business, everybody else must know his place.
82. Whah hurt eye does mek nose run water. When one member of the family is hurt all others feel it
83. When you want fuh swim river yuh gat fuh plunge inside fuss. You have to take risks when you attempt new ventures.
84. Yuh tel tara and tara tell tara. When you tell a friend a secret soon everyone knows because your friend will tell another friend.
85. Youth nah ah weary but he ah fall down. When you are young you carry much burden, but as you get old you can take on only little responsibility.
86. Yuh can’t chew bone with gum. If you do not have the necessary expertise or tools for a job, it is better not to bother with it.
87. Yuh can’t fatten cow fuh another man butcher. When you work hard and achieve something in life, you are not happy if it is taken away by others.
88. Yuh can’t drink mauby and belch beer. If you put little effort in a task you can expect very little success.
89. Yuh can’t suck cane and blow whistle. Do not try to carry out two tasks at the same time.
90. Yuh gat fuh blow yuh nose where yuh stump yuh toe. Some people take out their anger on those who are nearby but have nothing to do with it.
91. One, one dutty build dam. Every little bit adds up.
92. Dance a battam watch a tap …..While enjoying yourself look out for things that can threaten you.
93. Never cuss bridge that you cross Be grateful for favors from anyone because someday you may need another.
94. Monkey dress e pickney till he spoil. Don’t try to over do something, keep it simple.
95. All skin teeth nah laugh ..Just because someone smiles with you doesn’t mean that you are friends.
